FBI faked terrorist threat, misled DOJ about spying on 9/11 peace group - Polidicks

[Quote][URL="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/fbi_cover-up_turns_laughable_s.html"]Over at the [I]Washington Post[/I], Jeff Stein writes[/URL] that according to a Department of Justice report, "FBI officials, including the Pittsburgh office's top lawyer, engaged in distinctly COINTELPRO-style tactics after the ACLU sued for the release of documents" relating to surveillance of various peace groups after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Subjects of this spying included "an antiwar rally in Pittsburgh; a Catholic peace magazine; a Quaker activist; and members of the environmental group Greenpeace [and] PETA. "There was a time in the 1960s when the FBI’s illegal surveillance of left-wing groups seemed, and maybe even was, sinister if not broadly menacing. Parts of today’s Justice Department report on its more recent activities, however, evoke that old saw about history repeating itself as farce.When the FBI activity surfaced in 2006, it caused a hullabaloo, of course. Activists raised the specter of a return to the bad old days, when the FBI was breaking into antiwar offices and fabricating poison-pen letters to create rivalries in the Black Panther Party, among others, in its infamous COINTEL program, which was designed to wreak havoc in left-wing groups.[/Quote]Why am I not surprised the government is using cold war era-esque government policies to try and quell people coming out and protesting what happened on 9/11. Try and rationalize that and tell me the government is still not hiding something. :allears: [URL="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/20/doj-fbi-faked-terror.html"][U][U]source[/U][/U][/URL]

[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;24955765]Why am I not surprised the government is using cold war era-esque government policies to try and quell people coming out and protesting what happened on 9/11. Try and rationalize that and tell me the government is still not hiding something.[/QUOTE] You're focusing on the 9/11 thing which is one of a whole slow of different groups, as the article said, including Greenpeace, Quakers, etc. They even released reports on Yom Kippur. This is basically what bureaucrats do when they're being asked to justify their funding but can't find any real work to do. It's more laughably incompetent than it is sinister.

Oh look, your "source" cut out the rest of the article, showing that it has nothing to do with 9/11. Even so, the source for your source is an opinion piece.

PETA did 9/11. Greenpeace was flying the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. [editline]02:41AM[/editline] This article is proof of it.

alright guys, now what we definitely should start doing is completely take this for something totally different than what it is

[QUOTE=TH89;24955786]You're focusing on the 9/11 thing which is one of a whole slow of different groups, as the article said, including Greenpeace, Quakers, etc. They even released reports on Yom Kippur. This is basically what bureaucrats do when they're being asked to justify their funding but can't find any real work to do. It's more laughably incompetent than it is sinister.[/QUOTE] Even so, it brings to light suspicious behavior being perpetrated against what the people are fighting for. also, this: [QUOTE]There was a time in the 1960s when the FBI’s illegal surveillance of left-wing groups seemed, and maybe even was, sinister if not broadly menacing. Parts of today’s Justice Department report on its more recent activities, however, evoke that old saw about history repeating itself as farce.[/QUOTE]and this: [QUOTE]When the FBI activity surfaced in 2006, it caused a hullabaloo, of course. Activists raised the specter of a return to the bad old days, when the FBI was breaking into antiwar offices and fabricating poison-pen letters to create rivalries in the Black Panther Party, among others, in its infamous COINTEL program, which was designed to wreak havoc in left-wing groups.[/QUOTE] this too: [QUOTE]And compared with other, far more worrying invasions of civil rights by the government, such as its ongoing monitoring of Americans’ telephone calls and e-mails, it seems merely hapless.[/QUOTE] Laughable incompetence is one thing... but this is something entirely worse.

[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;24955849]Even so, it brings to light suspicious behavior being perpetrated against what the people are fighting for. also, this: and this: this too: Laughable incompetence is one thing... but this is something entirely worse.[/QUOTE] Every sentence you just quoted says the opposite of what you are saying.